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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "The Pilot" – "Hiroshima".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of Paul Tibbets flying team that he developed in late 1944?
(a) The 509th Composite Group.
(b) The 49th Air Brigade.
(c) The 219th Composite Group.
(d) The 109th Composite Group.

2. What code name was Enrico Fermi given at Los Alamos?
(a) Joe Stevenson.
(b) Henry Stimson.
(c) Henry Farmer.
(d) Bob Wilson.

3. Where was Knut Haukelid born?
(a) Oslo, Norway.
(b) Brooklyn, New York.
(c) Chicago, Illinois.
(d) Paris, France.

4. Who was the top army intelligence officer on the West Coast in June of 1943?
(a) Lt. Colonel John Wilson.
(b) General Brehon Somervell.
(c) Lt. Colonel Robert Serber.
(d) Lt. Colonel Boris Pash.

5. Who was the contact in New York that Saville Sax delivered Ted Hall's notes to in late 1944?
(a) Anatoly Yatzkov.
(b) Hans Bethe.
(c) Ruth Werner.
(d) Samuel Goudsmit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Near what town was the Vemork power plant located?

2. What was the name of the area at Los Alamos where Robert Oppenheimer lived?

3. How old was Dorothy McKibben in March of 1943?

4. When did news reach Washington and London that Germany was emptying the water machines at the Vemork plant?

5. On what date did Harry Gold travel to Massachusetts to locate Klaus Fuchs's sister's home?

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